Lists

I love lists!  I make lists for everything.  Two of my favorite lists are my Books Read in 2005 and The Pros and Cons of Buying Arnells vs. Hatches.  I love to go back and look at lists I've made in the past and see how things have changed.  We laughed when we looked at my menu plan from 10 years ago.  We don't even make half of the items on there anymore.

I was reading a fun book of essays this week and in one the author included her favorite list--what was under her bed.  It's was crazy and out of control.  I guess I do some cleaning because under my bed is clean.  Our out of control spot--our office desk.  I did spend hours filing, throwing away, and cleaning it last week so it's not nearly as out of control as usual, but I love the variety that's on there, so here's my list of the week:

On the Office Desk

• Family picture enlargement for my mom
• The Voice newspaper
• Kathryn's report card
• Two camcorder tapes labeled Dad's History-Vietnam
• Monitor
• My planner with nothing written down for this week
• A red pen labeled B&B Repair (it's my favorite)
• Reimbursement check from the ward
• Kathryn's paper announcing "500 jumps on my pogo stick!"
• 2 papers from Charity with stickers and drawings
• Quote from FHE: "When we seek the inspiration of the Almighty in the performance of our responsibilities, we can achieve the miraculous."
• Grandma Lyman's journals 2005-2007
• Blue letters A L I E (Where's the other L?)
• Printer
• Mollie's black hat
• Silver Necklace
• Seminary tests
• "Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems" book
• Bambi DVD
• Adobe CS 5.5 
• Phone
• Pencil Sharpener

And that's a clean desk!  =)  I love how it shows our family's week!  Did I mention I love lists!

4 months!

Time flies!  Mollie is 4 months and has grown up so much the last few weeks--plumped up too!  She's had a cold for weeks so she's not sleeping well and eating way too often and not being her usual happy self, but we still love her and everyone has so much fun with her.  There was a fight before school today because Charity wanted to be loving on her, but Allie and Kit thought it was their turn since they wouldn't see her all day.  They LOVE having a baby to love!

Mollie got lots of "Look how cute!" comments at the BYU basketball game.  But she didn't think the game was fun at all.  It was way too loud and she wanted to be nursing instead of enjoying the moment.  We spent a lot of time out in the hall.  But at least she was cute!!

This is Princess Anika (aka Mollie) in her princess dress and her sister who loves her passionately and kisses her with way too much gusto, but entertains her and takes care of her fabulously!  The best part about being an older sister:  she can translate for Mollie.  She will talk to Mollie and ask her what she needs or what's wrong and then tell us.  And she's usually right!